[Steam] Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition $5.00 US - Weekend Sale

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  _Bruce_ on 04/10/2013 - 09:45

  +8

  For those who own an older version:
  http://www.gog.com/news/enhance_the_gameplay_in_your_edition…

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    damnable on 04/10/2013 - 17:00

    Thanks for that.

    I have the old version but the main reason I wanted to go for the Enhanced is the higher resolution, widescreen an perhaps the opportunity to get a wider field of view in the game. Can you (or anyone) tell me if the fixes in that link will do this.

    I would just buy it but I have Intel integrated graphics so I want to avoid the extra effort to try and get this to work.

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      _Bruce_ on 04/10/2013 - 17:03

      Can you (or anyone) tell me if the fixes in that link will do this.

      Did you read the article? It steps through everything in detail and tells you what it does. Strongly recomend that you use the BG2 engine to play BG1, lots of improvements.

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        damnable on 04/10/2013 - 17:10

        Yeah I did. Just wanted to confirm with someone who has tried it. And if those edits are as good as the enhanced edition.

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        CyberGenesys on 04/10/2013 - 18:19

        I tried the mods. Was a pain in the pooper to set up. At the time instructions were pretty poor and written for WinXP. Once setup, was not very happy with the result, I don't recall the specifics, I think it just made everything too small and the scroll speed was insane. Probably fixable, but I just want to play the game.

        Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition seems to be much better, for 5$ I wouldn't bother trying to hack up the original with mods. I've sunk 30+ hours into the new version and yet to find fault with it (and yet to even reach Baldur's Gate).

        Side note; the enhanced edition is base game + ToSC + Black Pit. Black Pit is a new addon that does something (I don't really know), but there are new characters & quests in the Enhanced edition.

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  esq on 04/10/2013 - 10:03

  +2

  So many amazing memories playing this game on my super powerful Pentium 4 with 64mb of RAM.

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    _Bruce_ on 04/10/2013 - 10:22

    Given the recommended requirement for this game was a pentium (1) 200Mhz and the pentium 4 didn't come out till years later, pretty sure you didn't need to wait for such a powerful machine.

    It would run poorly if you had a bad video card for the time (4MB memory recommended). Mostly what held the game up is CD access speeds. As it was 6 discs full install was way to big for most people (newer versions use compressed textures and are much smaller).

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  paddy567 on 04/10/2013 - 11:58

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  Be aware this game has a showstopper bug that is unfixable in many integrated intel graphics computers (eg HD 3000, 4000). It happened to me; I was so pissed, there's was nothing about it before downloading. There are some incredibly byzantine hacks around, but they are a total pain. The GoG version works, and you can download the free plugins that make up ~80% of the enhanced version changes.

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    Telios on 04/10/2013 - 13:31

    Hoping that if I switch to my discrete card it shouldn't affect it right?

    Though that software is a bitch to configure so that it doesn't default to the HD4000 again.

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      paddy567 on 04/10/2013 - 19:55

      I was using my work lappy heh, so didn't have a discrete card - but yeah should be right I think.